Chapbooks and Broadside Collections

• Bodleian Libraries, Oxford – Broadside Ballads Online   
  • http://ballads.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/ 
• University of California – English Broadside Ballad Archive 
  • https://ebba.english.ucsb.edu/ 
• The American Antiquarian Society – Isaiah Thomas Broadside Ballads Project  
  • http://www.americanantiquarian.org/thomasballads/items/browse/tag/ballad 
• National Library of Scotland – The Word on the Street 
  • http://digital.nls.uk/broadsides/index.html 
• Streetprint: Revolution and Romanticism (private collection held in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada 
  • http://www.crcstudio.org/streetprint/index.php 
• University of Guelph Scottish Chapbooks 
  • https://scottishchapbooks.lib.uoguelph.ca/ 
• McGill Library’s Chapbook Collection 
  •  https://digital.library.mcgill.ca/chapbooks/ 
• University of Indiana - Lilly Library Chapbook Collection 
  • http://www.indiana.edu/~liblilly/chapbook.shtml 
• The Thomas Fisher Chapbook Collection 
  • https://archive.org/details/thomasfisherchapbooks&tab=collection 
• Centre for Textual Studies, De Montfort University – The Hockliffe Project 
  • http://hockliffe.dmu.ac.uk/ 
• Biblioteca Universitaria di Napoli – Libretti Popolari 
  • http://www.bibliotecauniversitarianapoli.beniculturali.it/index.php?it/203/libretti-popolari 

 

• NB An increasing number of digitised chapbooks and broadsides are being made available by Google Books and the Internet Archive (www.archive.org).